It hasn’t even been released yet, and Libre.de already lowered the price. You can no get the Wifi equipped LumiRead for 179 Euros, and the 3G model for 229 Euros. It still cost too much, IMO. Libre.de via Buch Report
Entries from September 24th, 2010
New Kindle app now available – Scrabble
September 24th, 2010 · No Comments · apps & games, kindle app
I just got word that a new app is now available for the Kindle. It’s Scrabble, and it’s made by Electronic Arts. They’re selling it for $4.99, which is more than I’m interested in paying. Here’s the description: With SCRABBLE for Kindle play the game you know and love – anytime, anywhere. Simple controls make [...]
Mobcast to operate ebookstore for Orange France
September 24th, 2010 · No Comments · press release
Mobcast have announced that they are now running an ebookstore for Orange France as well as Orange UK (announced last month). The ebookstore supports Android, and Java based phones. From the press release: Digital book service provider Mobcast Services Ltd. have announced an eBook distribution agreement with Orange France to offer customers eBooks to download [...]
Tags:ebookstore·france·mobcast·operate·orange
India’s Wink XTS e-reader is the Hanlin V60
September 24th, 2010 · No Comments · hardware news
There was a story going around this past week about EC Media and their new Wink 5″ e-reader model. I passed on the story; I’d already reported about the 5″ e-reader back in July and there was no new detail. No one had pictures, so it wasn’t worth a post.
Liquidware announce open source EDK (e-reader development kit)
September 24th, 2010 · 3 Comments · hardware news, press release
Do you recall the DIY e-reader kit I showed you a few days ago? Well, the developers have put out a press release announcing this device as an $ 421 open source EDK. You might want to read my previous post; it has a video, and links to the product page & the developer’s blog [...]
Tags:announce·development·edk·ereader·kit·liquidware·open·source
eBooks in a Textbook World
September 24th, 2010 · No Comments · opinion
Education is a splendid thing — except for the textbooks that students have to buy. When I was in school, high school and college, many, many years ago, it was rare that for there to be a single book for a course. Not only were they heavy to carry, but they were expensive — and [...]
Make way for the scammers
September 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
This disturbs me to no end. A Smashwords author found their book mentioned on this site – http://best1ebooks.com/ – and wrote us to ask if we’re distributing to them. Definitely not. They appear to be scraping Smashwords book covers and book descriptions and then selling [who knows what, but definitely not our books] at marked [...]
Tags:scammers
Kalahari.net Reader now available
September 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news, software news
South African ebookstore Kalahari.net have just released a beta version of their new reading app for PC and OSX. It’s tied in to their ebookstore, of course, and it supports Adobe DE DRM. Kalahari.net BTW, I found this promo video that Kalahari uploaded to Youtube back in June.
Tags:kalaharinet·reader
I’m releasing my photos under a CC license
September 23rd, 2010 · 4 Comments · blog maintenance
I’d been planning to do this for some time now but never got around to it. Everyone assumes that bloggers will use any image they find, be it through Google or from the story’s original source or whatever. I know I do. I also know that when other blogs repost myoriginal stories they use my [...]
1 in 3 potential tablet buyers want a physical keyboard
September 23rd, 2010 · 4 Comments · hardware news, press release
Sybase ocnducted a poll of 2100 Americans. The topic of the survey was tablets (features, price, apps, abilities). The press release came out yesterday. Some of the results are really interesting. Here are the ones that caught my eye. When purchasing a tablet, 56 percent said they would prefer to buy a device at a [...]
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